EMNLP 2008: conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — October 25-27, 2008 — Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Conference

• Call for papers
• Conference program
• List of accepted papers
• Invited speakers
• Registration form
• Visa information
• Committees
• Sponsors

Information for Authors

• Preparing your talk
• Preparing your poster
• Preparing your camera-ready paper
  (both talks and posters)

Travel Information

• Conference venue
• Accommodation
• About Hawaii and Waikiki

Important Dates

1. Paper submission deadline:

   Thursday, July 3, 2008 [400 submissions received]

2. Author Response Period:

   begins Friday, August 8, 2008 — ends Monday, August 11, 2008

3. Notification of acceptance:

   Thursday, August 21, 2008

4. Camera-ready copy due:

   Monday, September 15, 2008

5. Conference meeting:

   Saturday, October 25 - Monday, October 27, 2008

Program Co-Chairs:

• Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh
• Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore

Area Chairs:

• Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
• Srinivas Bangalore AT&T Research
• Noemie Elhadad Columbia University
• Radu Florian IBM Research
• Rebecca Hwa University of Pittsburgh
• Dan Klein University of California at Berkeley
• Hang Li Microsoft Research
• Mu Li Microsoft Research
• Jimmy Lin University of Maryland
• Chris Manning Stanford University
• Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• Mari Ostendorf University of Washington
• Bo Pang Yahoo! Research
• Chris Quirk Microsoft Research
• Ben Taskar University of Pennsylvania

Publications Chair:

• Sebastian Padó Stanford University